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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A Hurricane of Global Warming Lies

By Alan
Caruba

At his recent press conference,
President Obama, in response to a question, said “You know, as you know, Mark,
we can’t attribute any particular weather event to climate change. What we do
know is the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted
even ten years ago.” That is a flat out lie. The temperature of the Earth has
been cooling for at least sixteen years.

The devastation that Hurricane Sandy
wrought defies the imagination, particularly for those on the East Coast where
so much destruction was inflicted. It mirrored 2005’s Hurricane Katrina and it
is only natural for people to believe there has been an increase in hurricanes
striking the U.S. homeland, but there hasn’t.

Despite 2009’s “Climategate” that
revealed that global warming is a hoax, many still believe it exists. In a
letter to Fred Upton, the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
on November 11th,
meteorologists and climatologists joined to warn that “Global warming that has
not actually occurred can scarcely have contributed much to vast destruction
wrought by Sandy.”

Dr. Bill Gray, the nation’s expert on
hurricanes, was joined by Dr. Willie Soon, Prof. Fred Singer, and Lord
Christopher Monckton, a science advisor to Britain’s former Prime Minister,
Margaret Thatcher, to say that “Hurricane Sandy was a freak storm, not the type
of extreme weather event that climate scientists have said will become more
frequent and more severe if we fail to reduce emissions of carbon
dioxide.”

“After almost 16
years without global warming, there are still a few who implausibly try to
blame this non-existent global warming for causing various weather-related
disasters in the past two or three years.” The letter advised against holding
hearings on the recent hurricane. “With the election behind us, we will have an
opportunity to begin again and give this matter the attention it deserves—none
at all.”

Writing in Forbes
magazine, James Taylor, the Heartland Institute’s editor of Environment and
Climate News, spelled out the actual record of hurricane activity in the decades
prior to the global warming hoax which began in the late 1980s and
since.

“The National Hurricane Center (NHC)
provides information on major U.S. hurricanes during the past 100-plus years.
According to the NHC, 70 major hurricanes struck the United States in the 100
years between 1911 and 2010. That is an average of seven major hurricane strikes
per decade.”

In all the decades back to 1961, the
100-year average remained intact with major hurricanes ranging from as few per
decade as four and as many as seven. Not a single decade varied from
this.

In the decades since the 1980s when
alarmists began warning of a major increase in the overall temperature of the
Earth, claiming it would trigger major weather events like hurricanes, nothing
changed. In the decades in which carbon dioxide emissions were said to be the
cause, the average remained the same.

Taylor examined the preceding 50
years before “the alleged human-induced global warming crisis.” He spelled out
the data from 1951 to 1920 that reveals that the 100-year average was unchanged.

Despite the global warming claims
“during the past four decades, the time period during which global warming
alarmists claim human-induced global warming accelerated rapidly and became
incontrovertible, the fewest number of major hurricanes struck during any
40-year period since at least the 1800s.”

In the first two years of this
current decade “exactly zero major hurricanes struck the United
States.”

Despite this, the calls for carbon
taxes are being heard; taxes that would affect all industry and businesses
nationwide. Such a tax, already in place in California, would drive large scale
manufacturing out of the nation and take with them hundreds of thousands of
jobs. It would impact the nation’s utilities and drive up the cost of
electricity, the life blood of the nation.

If Americans do not wake up to this
threat, do not realize that hurricane activity has not increased, and realize,
too, that the Earth has been in a cooling cycle since 1998, they will fall
victim to the vast matrix of environmental organizations, government agencies,
and the mainstream media that continues to spread alarm in the name of global
warming and climate change.

About Me

I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.